Word: plasterers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Canaday, where residents have come to expect falling plaster and ceiling cracks, will have to have a new roof put on during its renovation this summer, says Project Manager Alana M. Knuff...
...leakage has affected more than plaster roofs and inhabitants' nerves. Over the years, the water has warped the metal window frames common to buildings of the 60s and 70s, leading to drafts...
Violence in South Africa has unfortunately become epidemic. Here in the U.S., the nightly news regularly contains reports of the random killing that occurs in the townships. Images of men corralled in burning tires or beaten to death with grotesquely barbed polearms plaster our television screens with fair frequency. But the killing that took place so close to me was different. The thief did not strangle the woman because of politics or clan rivalry, which lead to so much of the violence in the country. His only motivation was greed. He was a burglar who saw an opportunity...
...reason why the Throne Room, the red chamber where knights are dubbed beneath a plaster frieze of roly-poly figures enacting scenes from the Wars of the Roses, is so curiously ungrand. Not all of that is Blore's fault -- the squat thrones themselves, one with EIIR embroidered on it and the other with P for Philip, were done in 1953 and look Hollywood-Ruritanian, if not suburban. You can't help reflecting on the amount of lobbying from aspirant title seekers that has focused on this red room over the past century...
...dawn last Friday, Reitha and Ken Lakeberg gathered quietly with family and friends in the intensive-care unit of Children's Hospital in Philadelphia. As tears began to well, the Lakebergs made plaster imprints of the tiny hands of their daughters Amy and Angela, then picked them up and hugged and kissed them. Born seven weeks ago, the girls were Siamese twins, joined breast to belly, with a fused liver and a shared heart. As they cuddled the girls, Reitha, 24, and Ken, 26, knew that they would not see Amy, "the ornery one," alive again. Her fingernails had been...